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Title: | Desertification in the African Environment |
Author: | Grove, Alfred T. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 73 |
Issue: | 291 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 137-151 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | deserts Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Drought and Desertification |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/720731 |
Abstract: | The Sahara, the Kalahari and other desert and semi-desert regions in Africa are expanding. The author examines the relative contribution of man and climate in the process or desertirication in the following sections: changing climates - the role of man - measuring the rate of desert encroachment - combating desert encroachment. Notes. |